Maintaining a healthy weight is a critical component of promoting our overall health and well-being. Yet, for many of us, keeping to a healthy weight is no easy task. This is even harder with all the contradictory nutrition information out there.
These posts focus on healthy ways to lose weight and look at the evidence (or lack thereof) for many of the popular weight loss diets out there.
Any conversation on weight loss invariably involves some discussion of junk food and the importance of cutting down. But, if you’ve tried to lose weight in the past, you’ll know that it isn’t as simple as that. Now, recent research is showing that the link between junk food and obesity isn’t what everyone expects.
Society views breakfast as the most important meal of the day, one that should not be skipped. Yet, there is actually a lot of debate surrounding breakfast and the research points in a direction that you might not expect.
The Paleo diet is well-known, but full of controversy. With its focus on whole foods, this type of diet does have the potential to help improve health, but not everybody finds it easy to follow.
With so many die-hard fanatics promoting the Paleo diet, it can sometimes be a bit difficult to work out what the diet actually involves and whether it is right for you. In this article, I focus on the science and logic behind the diet, rather than the hype, to show how the diet could be relevant to you.